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What is Dayforce?

Dayforce HCM is a cloud-based platform encompassing HR, payroll, benefits, and talent and workforce management. It provides companies with a scalable framework and real-time data, such as continual pay calculations, to enable efficient decision-making.

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Dayforce

10 out of 10
February 02, 2024
We use Dayforce for Payroll and HR. We have over 20 locations with varying ESA requirements and multiple jurisdictions. Dayforce is able …
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Popular Features

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  • Pay calculation (567)
    9.0
    90%
  • Update personal information (577)
    8.7
    87%
  • Pre-built reports (571)
    7.7
    77%
  • Report builder (571)
    7.6
    76%

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What is Dayforce?

Dayforce HCM is a cloud-based platform encompassing HR, payroll, benefits, and talent and workforce management. It provides companies with a scalable framework and real-time data, such as continual pay calculations, to enable efficient decision-making.

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  • Setup fee optional

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  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Features

Human Resource Management

Organizing, tracking and providing instant access to critical employee data, job profiles, transfers, promotions, and benefits information.

7.8
Avg 7.8

Payroll Management

Provides for pay calculation and benefit plan administration, in addition to managing direct deposit, salary revisions and payroll tracking.

8.4
Avg 8.0

Leave and Attendance Management

Streamlines communication between HR and employees and facilitates efficient management of employee leave including requisitions, approvals, balance calculation, and annual carry-forward.

8
Avg 8.1

Employee Self Service

Employee portal allowing employees to view and update their personal information.

8.1
Avg 8.1

Asset Management

Maintaining a record of assets such as laptops, pagers, cell phones, etc. issued to employees. Record typically includes asset type, number, serial number and date of issuance.

7.5
Avg 7.7

HR Reporting

Pre-built and custom reports, and integration with external data.

7.2
Avg 7.6

Onboarding

Employee onboarding is the process of orienting new hires to the social and performance aspects of their jobs so that they are able to function in their new roles as quickly as possible.

7.8
Avg 8.0

Performance and Goals

Goal alignment is the practice of ensuring that all employees have clearly defined goals in support of the overall corporate strategy.

7.7
Avg 8.1

Performance Management

Performance management is the process of ensuring employees meet pre-determined objectives and goals through regular check-ins and appraisals.

7.8
Avg 7.9

Succession Planning

Succession planning is the identification and development of internal employees with the potential to fill key business leadership positions in the company.

6.9
Avg 7.9

Recruiting / ATS

Recruiting or Applicant Tracking Software is software used to manage the recruitment process electronically by handling job postings, applicant status, resume management, etc.

7.3
Avg 7.7
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Product Details

What is Dayforce?

Dayforce is a global people platform for the modern workforce. An enterprise HCM solution, Dayforce combines payroll, HR, benefits, talent management, and workforce management in a single cloud application to power today’s boundless workforce. Dayforce helps organizations unlock their full workforce potential and operate with confidence no matter where they operate in the world.

Dayforce is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario and Minneapolis, Minnesota with operations across the globe. The company’s brand promise to make work life better is the commitment it makes not only to customers, but to its own people and the communities Dayforce operates in.

Key product areas:

· HRIS

· Global payroll, on-demand pay

· Benefits

· Workforce management, including time and attendance and task management

· Talent acquisition, including recruiting and onboarding

· Talent management, including performance management, succession planning, compensation management, engagement surveys, and an integrated learning management system

· Advanced reporting, analytics, and dashboards

· HR self service via the Dayforce mobile app

Dayforce Features

Human Resource Management Features

  • Supported: Employee demographic data
  • Supported: Employment history
  • Supported: Job profiles and administration
  • Supported: Workflow for transfers, promotions, pay raises, etc.
  • Supported: Benefits information
  • Supported: Organizational charting
  • Supported: Organization and location management
  • Supported: Compliance data (COBRA, OSHA, etc.)

Payroll Management Features

  • Supported: Pay calculation
  • Supported: Support for external payroll vendors
  • Supported: Off-cycle/On-Demand payment
  • Supported: Payroll history for each employee
  • Supported: Benefit plan administration
  • Supported: Direct deposit files
  • Supported: Payroll tracking and auditing
  • Supported: Salary revision and increment management
  • Supported: Reimbursement management
  • Supported: Statutory form management

Leave and Attendance Management Features

  • Supported: Approval workflow
  • Supported: Email notifications
  • Supported: Balance details
  • Supported: Travel absence management
  • Supported: Annual carry-forward and encashment

Employee Self Service Features

  • Supported: Employee login
  • Supported: View and generate pay and benefit information
  • Supported: Update personal information
  • Supported: Request time off
  • Supported: View job history
  • Supported: View company policy documentation
  • Supported: View company news and information
  • Supported: Employee recognition

Asset Management Features

  • Supported: Tracking of all physical assets

HR Reporting Features

  • Supported: Report builder
  • Supported: Pre-built reports
  • Supported: Ability to combine HR data with external data

Integration with other HR capabilities Features

  • Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by same vendor
  • Supported: Additional HR capabilities (talent management, LMS, etc.) supplied by different vendor

Performance Management Features

  • Supported: Performance plans
  • Supported: Performance improvement plans
  • Supported: Review status tracking
  • Supported: Review reminders
  • Supported: Multiple review frequency

Succession Planning Features

  • Supported: Create succession plans/pools
  • Supported: Candidate ranking
  • Supported: Candidate search
  • Supported: Candidate development

Onboarding Features

  • Supported: New hire portal
  • Supported: Manager tracking tools

Performance and Goals Features

  • Supported: Corporate goal setting
  • Supported: Individual goal setting
  • Supported: Line-of sight-visibility
  • Supported: Performance tracking

Recruiting / ATS Features

  • Supported: Job Requisition Management
  • Supported: Company Website Posting
  • Supported: Publish to Social Media
  • Supported: Job Search Site Posting
  • Supported: Duplicate Candidate Prevention
  • Supported: Applicant Tracking
  • Supported: Notifications and Alerts

Dayforce Screenshots

Screenshot of Dayforce Home ScreenScreenshot of Scheduling DashboardScreenshot of Compensation DashboardScreenshot of Succession Planning - Talent MatrixScreenshot of Payroll DashboardScreenshot of Dayforce Mobile - RecruitingScreenshot of Dayforce Mobile - SchedulingScreenshot of Dayforce Benefits Decision SupportScreenshot of Dayforce AssistantScreenshot of Dayforce WalletScreenshot of Performance ManagementScreenshot of Docu SignScreenshot of Dayforce Dash BoardScreenshot of CompensationScreenshot of BenefitsScreenshot of Benefits IntelligenceScreenshot of ApprovalsScreenshot of Analytics DashboardScreenshot of AdministrationScreenshot of Workforce ManagementScreenshot of Workforce management AnalyticsScreenshot of Talent SolutionScreenshot of Payroll

Dayforce Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android, Mobile Web
Supported CountriesGlobal
Supported LanguagesEnglish (US), English (GB), French, French Canadian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Italian, German, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Dutch, Hindi, Portuguese (Brazil), Croatian, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian, Slovak, Japanese, Korean, Hungarian, Thai

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Frequently Asked Questions

Dayforce HCM is a cloud-based platform encompassing HR, payroll, benefits, and talent and workforce management. It provides companies with a scalable framework and real-time data, such as continual pay calculations, to enable efficient decision-making.

ADP Vantage HCM, Workday Human Capital Management, and ADP Workforce Now are common alternatives for Dayforce.

Reviewers rate Pay calculation and Direct deposit files highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Dayforce are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Dayforce Customer Size Distribution

Consumers0%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)1%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)18%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)81%
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Reviews and Ratings

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Attribute Ratings

Reviews

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Lisa Ozment Venable | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Support is good
  • They help with implementation of Ceridian Dayforce with new facilities
  • They help with all of our tax issues.
  • Reporting has always been a challenge for me
  • The Ceridian Dayforce App could use upgrading / not very user friendly
October 04, 2023

Dayforce Review

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Provides transparency for employees
  • Allows self-service funcionality
  • Streamlines process across various modules
  • Work assignment screen are sometimes difficult to work with
  • Benefit module could be improved
Donald Ormsby, SHRM-CP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • End-user experience
  • Security Controls
  • Customization
  • Easy of integrations
  • Most custom work results in additional fees
  • Mobile look and feel, feels old.
October 04, 2023

Getting a Little Better

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Efficient new hire set up.
  • Easily import many lines of data for payroll processing.
  • Ceridian tax service for support with all tax payments, filings and reporting.
  • Reports sometimes use the same name - but are very different depending on where they’re run from.
  • Still, we occasionally have issues related to things missed during our original product implementation.
  • Sometimes Customer Support turnaround lags too much.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Once you set up your parameters, the system will do what you need it to without having to repeat sets every single time.
  • We can customize items to where there are different access to different things such as time off, etc.
  • Once system alerts are set u,p the system runs in the background. The system tracks and will continue to nudge the user until it is complete.
  • Additional capabilities on the app.
  • Maybe have an error library on what to do with certain errors.
  • Spend more time with clients when implementing the product to ensure a smooth as possible transition.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Limiting data view to specific roles (Manager, VP, HR, employee views)
  • Assigning a new job to any employee
  • Changing employee pay via a structured form
  • Setting up workflows to allow multiple approvers before a final approval.
  • Reassigning a manager to an employee when the original manager resigns/ is terminated.
  • Ability to drag any field in Dayforce into a custom report.
  • Make onboarding less complicated to set up
September 08, 2023

The starts of Dayforce!

Erin Crouch | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Dayforce is a single login system to access all portals.
  • Dayforce has an app for our employees use.
  • Dayforce will help create a better culture within our organization.
  • More options with look backs for any earnings that affect the regular rate of pay for hourly employees
  • More options for reporting on detailed labor distribution details
  • More options for entering bonuses that are not done via Excel import
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Seamless integration of data
  • Training- The Ceridian Education Center has a wealth of information and courses available.
  • Availability of implementation staff by email.
  • During implementation, I believe that the ICs need to have more conversations with the clients about current processes and changes that the clients would like to make. This would help the configuration process run a lot more smoothly.
  • Communication amongst their own configuration/implementation team members- sharing documents, information, etc.
  • Share more best practices with the clients during implementation.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting
  • Recruiting
  • Managing payroll
  • Import of HR policies through SFTP
  • An option to delete incorrect balances through front end
  • Audit section to capture pay policy changes
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Wallet - we see a great adoption rate
  • Pay policies - helps us automate a lot of premiums
  • Entitlements - we are able to automate pretty much many premiums
  • Onboarding - First Time Access emails and Guided processes
  • Payroll - automatic tax authority assignments based on locations
  • Pay policies should have a "Move under" ability to avoid us clicking multiple times to move a rule
  • The ability to drag and drop form controls as opposed to having to write XML coding
  • The ability to use few more types of recurrence dates for entitlements that should be triggered on various dates that are not equally spaced
  • Dayforce should have the ability to distinctly read separate shifts on the same day.. It should not club all shifts in Timesheets.. for example, a shift that occurs in the morning , let's say employee is guaranteed their Early out.. employee leaving late in the second shift must trigger an OT outside schedule in this example.. Dayforce should not club all scheduled hours in all shifts that day to trigger this OT
  • Pay adjustments must not start at 12:00 AM, they should start at the beginning of the scheduled shift.. and if not, it should be triggered at any start time the admin chooses. Current functionality is inadequate
  • Workflow management can be much improved
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
  • Dayforce is extremely customizable.
  • It is quick, efficient, and accurate when paying employees.
  • It has automated a number of our previously manual processes.
  • The service support model is difficult at times.
  • If you need changes to your configuration done by Ceridian, it is very costly.
  • For a global tool, you can only process payroll for an employee on one country's payroll at a time.
Amanda Tetzner | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Reporting. It has an extensive report builder with stock reports, ad-hoc reports, and the ability to build your own custom reports.
  • Payroll. The continuous payroll engine makes processing complex payrolls much easier and faster.
  • Forms. The stock forms are a great jumping off point to start creating custom forms that work better for your processes and organization.
  • Documentation. Every module is well documented, and you're always bound to learn something if you read through them properly!
  • Customer Support. They are great at innovation, but it can be frustrating trying to get support for features because they're always at high ticket volume. They have different support tiers based on your organization's size, so if you're a smaller customer, it is hard to get consistent support.
  • Functionalities are not always consistent across modules. Some areas of Ceridian Dayforce have audit capabilities to track data changes, but some don't, and it's hit or miss which features have them.
Josh Morgan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Providing employees with the best visibility to their records.
  • Allows for a company to house the entire employee life-cycle electronically.
  • The reporting feature is very robust though can be challenging if one does not know the back-end for advanced purposes.
  • Effective dating can cause an issue when mass importing data.
  • Retro functionality when importing time during a prior pay period.
June 18, 2023

Dayforce.

Stacey Busija | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Easy to implement pay cards to replace paper checks.
  • Geofencing for clocking in and out at remote sites.
  • Great reporting capabilities.
  • Customer service has decreased since COVID.
  • More features on the mobile app, like approvals.
  • Easier interface for reports with payroll and HR data fields.
  • More autonomy to create workflow routing.
May 31, 2023

Dayforce Review.

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Generates accurate reports.
  • Very user-friendly.
  • Easy to contact Dayforce support and respond in a timely manner.
  • Time off requests is finicky.
  • Balance structure.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Constantly rolling out upgrades and feature enhancements
  • Easy to use interface
  • Great customer support
  • Support tickets sometimes redundant and cumbersome, they rely very heavily on them to the point where sometimes the issue is easier to fix than the number of/ensuring you have the correct support ticket(s).
  • Integration with our other platforms is subpar or non-existent
  • The UI is kind of dated and lacks a visual appeal
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